John Boyd
John Boyd
auction date owner power price property rather sold
The sellers in the auction have the power rather than the buyer. They set the date for the auction and the closing, they set the price and the property is sold as-is. The owner is the power-broker in the sale.
admire agencies fix fixed people problems staying trying
I admire people for staying and trying to fix the problems, but we have other agencies out there that had problems and fixed them, and they are not getting rewarded,
coach forces good playing rather sure team tuesday
I'm sure coach ( Mike) Hackett would rather be playing someone other than us. I'd rather play a good team on Tuesday right off the bat. Because it forces you to be ready.
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If the Legislature goes ahead with what the governor has recommended, then we will be a state in which the voting public can be confident that the results of the election are going to be verifiably accurate and that their votes can be counted properly.
advanced forces given greater last mankind nature powers previous science
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
court elections issue purity
There is no more important issue than the purity of elections in this state, ... And I will tell ... the court that the elections are not pure.
social-unrest fabric revolution
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
civilization unity age
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
government use world
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
country becoming world
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
world sovereignty absolutes
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
revenge war lust
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
rivals empires defeat
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
country communication years
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.